John McGinn wheels away after hitting a goal on his return from injury

Both of Cummings first-half goals were set up by new signing Chris Humphrey on his debut.

McGinn climbed off the bench after a month-long lay-off to bag the third.

But Lenny revealed he GAMBLED by including both in his squad.

He said: “Chris hasn’t played for a while so it was a bit of a gamble.

“With McGinn I didn’t see it coming, we brought him on to shore things up a little bit.

“He’s only trained 20 minutes on Wednesday and Thursday a month after surgery, but my medical team have done a great job and so has he.”

Gutted United boss Ray McKinnon conceded his side were second best.

But he insists the result has NOT derailed their chances of finishing top.

McKinnon said: “I’m very disappointed with the first 20 minutes. That killed us. Going 2-0 down, it was game over.

“But we’re only four points behind and that’s nothing in this league.

“If you’d said to me at the start of the season that we’d be four points off the lead with 16 or 17 games left, I’d have bitten your hand off. Two draws, that’s all it takes — and we’re bang back in it.”

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